The Registers five-member editorial board brought that same purpose and thoughtfulness to the table as it decided which candidate, President Barack Obama or Gov. Mitt Romney, should earn the newspapers endorsement.

The Des Moines Register is hard-core Stalinist-Leninist. Probably just an invitation for someone to shoot up a schol so they can trumpet gun control. Dead people are a small price to pay for a socialist workers’ paradise!

If you read the article it talks about having an alternative to having an active duty police officer be your security detail at the school.

I can see the issue from both sides of the equation - I was an accounting director for a school district before I became a teacher.

From the accountant side, I can tell you that a police officer will cost you the officers salary plus uniform allowances, pension contribution, car allowance - or in other word upward of $75 to 80k per year. A security guard, who is an employee of the disrict would only cost $40 to 45K fully loaded rate per year. The security officers have the ability to arrest and detail students and intruders, as well as carry guns. It is more financially responsible.

From the teacher side (in an inner city high school) I saw situations where security and police presence were paid more than teachers - how pathetic was that. I was nice to have security there at all times, but felt too much like a prison.

Thank God for the Cathoic high school who hired me out of the mess. We have no security or police presence AND we don’t need one. Now that is teaching is supposed to be like.

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posted on 03/27/2013 5:43:32 PM PDT
by Cyclone59
(Obama is like Ron Burgundy - he will read ANYTHING that is on the teleprompter)

The news media want another shooter to murder people because it will further the socialist/statist agenda. All the news media egg on potential mass shooters, promising them immortal world wide fame and glory if they would only murder innocents the news media are pure evil democrats/socialists one and all of them or practically all of them The media controls what people talk about and what they think about etc. the media is the main problem then the government

And they have either embedded themselves or taken over most media outlets even in Conservative states and communities.

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posted on 03/27/2013 6:55:37 PM PDT
by cva66snipe
(Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)

I believe there are libs that wouldnt bat an eye at sacrificing a few kids to further their agenda. I honestly believe this.

Every time their principles are used to further a movement, millions wind up dead. China, Russia, Cambodia, East Germany, Laos, Cuba, VietNam, Bulgaria, North Korea, Romania, Ethiopia, Hungary, Zimbabwe... a handful of children is nothing compared to a quarter billion souls in the past 90 years.

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posted on 03/28/2013 4:14:24 AM PDT
by Teacher317
('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)

No, it doesn’t have to cost an arm and leg. I know of several schools in our area who gave the Sheriff a room near the front door of the school. The Sheriff stations his day shift on-duty deputy in that school “office”. The deputy has to be at his desk anyway, so he is there doing his work and keeping an armed presence for the school. No added expense, except maybe an extra phone line.

(Editor Rick) Green told Fox News Channel that the map was only on the paper's website for 20 minutes, after which it was taken down amid an avalanche of angry phone calls. "My team alerted me to it, and we took it down," Green said.

Yeah... Editor, who OK'd your newspaper's publishing that map? I think the citizens should know WHO in your newspaper decided to put their children's lives at risk for an extra couple readers? And did you review the story and uploading the map? Who in your "team" was alerted to the map and realized it was a stupid-ass thing to do and notified you of the disaster you either didn't know about, or had originally approved?

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